scion

1. (botany) A detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant, used in grafting; a shoot or twig in a general sense.Examples: "[If] you finde a certaine miſlike or conſumption in the plant, you ſhall immediatly vvith a ſharp knife cut the plant off ſlope-vviſe upvvard, about three fingers from the ground, and ſo let it reſt till the next ſpring, at vvhich time you ſhall behold nevv cyons iſſue from the roote, […]"; "He used to think that the plums in this country weren’t good enough, and so he has reformed them, grafting scion to rootstock."